Yes I always wondered why this forum did not feature more comedy postings.

Unfortunately, the loony-tunes idiot who wrote this is his own worst enemy, when it comes to communicating simple ideas.

What he says comes down to this: in all the fervour and excitement of painting climate change pictures, has anybody seriously thought about directing the "rescue" funds towards containment, as opposed to prevention?

Has anybody, come to that, seriously considered whether prevention is at all practicable, given the political nature of the issues? We are presently witnessing in Europe the results of ceding sovereignty over key components of national economies to a central, bureaucratic machine. Surely, in any analysis of potential government action, this experience should form a major input to discussions.

Unfortunately, the message becomes branded by the messenger, where it becomes so much easier to deride than to consider.

But who is the governing class?

There is an essay on the Age website this morning by Harold Myerson from the American Prospect titled Markets Are Now the Most Powerful Force on Earth.

Quite so. This has been common knowledge for quite some time now. It is described in The Captive State by George Monbiot, and When Corporations Ruled the World by David Korten.

Never mind too that many mega sized multinational corporations etc etc have much more wealth, and thus real power than most small and medium sized countries. They are accountable to no one except their shareholders.

Never mind too that the fate of the world altogether is also very much controlled by casino capitalism, which is to say that most of the phantom money being sloshed around the world on a 24/7 basis has nothing whatsoever to do with creating real tangible wealth for anyone.

Brilliant.

Look the whole thing is just too absurd for words. The climatology is riddled with malfeasance and circularity, the economics just keeps getting disproved over and over again, and the politics is just blatantly corrupt and disgusting. The whole belief system is immune against disproof and ethics.

The political criminals behind this massive scam should all be in prison for a very long time.

What is missing from the entire rationale of policy in this matter is the concept of freedom, the concept that the coercive sector may not know better than everyone else in the world put together, and the concept that the best response may be not by way of forced decisions by an elite at all but voluntary decisions by everybody.

Monkton=Fraud

Meanwhile, the world's glaciers keep melting.

David